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Soy Adrián

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  1. You're behaving as if the campaign that Corbyn ran was clear and balanced on how complex the issue of the EU is for Labour, how there were many good Labour people on either side and that both campaigns had their merits and their flaws. It would be one thing if he'd have done that, and that would have indeed been a better way of approaching it than this bizarro version of a strong Remain campaign you think we're advocating where it would be suggested that voting Leave was incompatible with supporting Labour. The only problem is - that's unequivocally not the campaign that took place. Instead, he squandered his unique position as the party leader by showing all the complete lack of understanding of how the media works that his leadership in general has been defined by, with an extra sprinkling of refusing to make appearances which he thought beneath him and allowing/telling his staff to delete pro-EU sections of his speeches. It was the worst of both worlds.
  2. No, you're trying to turn the argument again back to something which no one has actually said. You denied that people in Labour heartlands resented Corbyn anywhere near as much as they resented the EU, and pointed to the fact that in May we were the largest party in many of our heartlands, which would then go on to vote Leave in higher numbers than many other places. I don't think there's much evidence for that, partly because of evidence from knocking on doors in the run up to the locals where Corbyn was just as much a negative as Europe, but mainly because the local elections saw a far lower turnout where many of the "Labour" people who went on to vote Leave a month later simply stayed at home.
  3. Again, turnout.
  4. Turnout in the locals was around half of what it was in the referendum. Did you miss the bit where loads of non-voters (many of whom used to or culturally would be expected to vote Labour) turned out to vote to leave because they were generally angry at all politicians including Corbyn? As an aside, winning those sorts of people over was meant to be his trump card. Looking at his past views, I suppose he did in a sense.
  5. McNair is decent and can play in multiple positions. Good rotation option. Pogba plays best in a 4-3-3, which would also suit most of United's front players bar Rooney and Mata.
  6. Soy Adrián posted a post in a topic in News and Politics
    As strangely apt as this would be, it's a bit too much of an overly complicated Batman gambit.
  7. Resentment of Corbyn in those areas was almost as high as resentment of the EU, just for the record.
  8. There was a referendum on our membership. Invariably that means that most politicians and parties would pick a side and argue for it - that's kind of their job.
  9. 48% isn't mainstream? Give over.
  10. 20% of Everton's profit. Pretty standard with younger players I think. Still think Stones is probably worth half a Pogba, particularly under Guardiola. Mangala may be out of the door after being left out of the squad for the Champions League playoff - with Kompany, Otamendi, Stones, Denayer and the youngsters they should have enough cover without him and they'll make at least half their money back in this market.
  11. Andy Burnham's not necessarily any more talented than a lot of the others, he was running for a position where it would have been counterproductive to oppose Corbyn. Also, grad tax and rail renationalisation. Open Labour dream manifesto more like.
  12. I'm feeling slightly more optimistic about the future of Manchester today. So that's nice.
  13. Soy Adrián posted a post in a topic in Movies and Theatre
    5/10 for me. Enjoyable, but both 'halves' of the film had problems.
  14. Soy Adrián posted a post in a topic in News and Politics
    The obvious difference there being that the official referendum campaign hadn't kicked off 3 months before the poll, whereas it's now in full swing in the US. Also, I don't think that the poll change has that much to do with Hillary - it's more down to Trump saying and doing things which many swing voters will see as beyond the pale.
  15. The 100m is always early in the programme. It allows athletes who are doubling up to get some rest before the 200m heats and leaves plenty of time before the relay.
  16. He's worth half a Paul Pogba, I'll give him that.
  17. Apparently it cost more than £3 per head to vet the registered supporters last summer, so possibly not.
  18. I'm also coming round to the idea of him. He's not Pulis, his teams will play some quite decent stuff if he's given full control over tactics. I do feel a bit for Sunderland though!
  19. The actual right of the party would have been mortified if you'd told them a year ago that we'd be having a leadership contest between Corbyn and Eagle. They'll like Smith even less.
  20. A shame, although I was backing Smith anyway. A wider debate would have been good but you can understand why the PLP only wanted two candidates.
  21. Good for his long term career prospects. May only have to wait a year until he gets to play in the Champions League. No brainer really.
  22. Job losses from us leaving will affect every sector and every pay grade. You're clueless.
  23. I thought Celtic played with a lot of character last night.
  24. Owen Smith could be great. My Corbynite friend said last autumn that he was probably the shadow minister closest to me in views, which was meant to be vaguely complementary. If nothing else, we could swap John Oliver in for him for PMQs and aside from the accent no one would notice.
  25. He would have been good ten years ago, but the game has moved on. Back then he was taking decent Premier League teams and pushing them into Europe - now he's taking crap teams and making them decent. He wouldn't be a disaster, but we could do a lot better. As a West Ham fan, the fact that Bilic's name was being thrown around makes me feel underwhelmed by Big Sam.